High Yield Bonds – Page 4
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Features
IPE Quest Expectations Indicator - August 2021
The next wave of COVID-19 has come to pass earlier than expected, largely due to new variants. The UK is hard hit, being sensitive to variants Alpha, Beta and Delta. The EU is next in line, with the Netherlands, Spain and Denmark in the forefront and Delta playing a leading role, but other member states are right behind. There is no sign of the next wave in the US yet, but it is sensitive to the variants Gamma and possibly Alpha, which plays a role in Canada.
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News
Pension fund in Denmark tenders $100m corporate bond mandate
Plus: Discovery search for residential real estate
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Features
Pensions insider: Handling mistrust after a huge loss
In the first in a series of articles aimed at empowering trustees, our expert contributor describes how a pension fund solved a real-life case involving poor judgement by a high-yield bond manager
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News
Ilmarinen invests €170m in AXA low-carbon HY bond fund
Finnish pension insurer is seed investor in active ESG fixed income fund, which is ‘one of the first of its kind’
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Asset Class Reports
US high yield: A changing market
US high yield looks attractive against investment-grade credit although there are important changes for key sectors
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Features
Fixed Income, Rates, Currencies: A very different recovery
Amongst the remarkable happenings in 2020, from startling news of a pandemic to viable vaccine and beyond, has been the speed and scale of interventions from central banks and governments.
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: The tipping point for UK pension schemes
Schemes need to consider how to get to a secure level of funding, but also, the assets they will need to hold when they reach peak cashflows in order to remain fully funded
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News
Commission to use rescue plan to create ‘European yield curve’
‘In addition to issuing bonds with a maturity of up to 30 years, there will also be an emphasis on the short end’
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AP1 spurs more fossil-free funds as TOBAM adapts EM, HY
Swedish state pension buffer fund says initiative is a milestone
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News
Intesa Sanpaolo issues €1bn in equity, bond mandates
The scheme is seeking managers for US and euro corporate bonds, global high yield corporate bonds, among others
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WTW: Passive managers ‘disappoint’ as stewards of fixed income
Stewardship in fixed income is a position of significant influence, says consultancy
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News
Brunel PP seeks managers for £1.5bn MAC, £1.2bn corporate bond funds
The MAC portfolio will invest in high yield corporate bonds, bank loans, asset-backed securities and emerging market debt
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Large cap value, global HY mandates put out to tender via IPE Quest
Scandi pension fund and UK-based institutional investor are behind the searches
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Asset Class Reports
Credit: High yield managers embrace uncertainty
Managers are constructive about high yield, loans and alternative credit despite the volatile outlook
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News
Mandate roundup: LGPS Central launches multi-asset credit manager search
Plus: Cometa awards €1.4bn to Generali; German investor tenders hIgh bond yields brief
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News
How Folketrygdfondet calmed markets with pop-up bond fund
‘At the start of the pandemic, a lot of people were searching for answers,’ says Kjetil Houg
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News
Norway’s new NOK50bn Government Bond Fund makes first investments
Manager of SWF’s smaller element posts 11.7% loss for Q2
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LD seeks managers for €1.5bn of Danish/European bonds
Pension fund manager tenders for Danish short-term and high-grade bonds
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News
LGPS Central sets up investment grade bond fund
Fidelity International and Neuberger Berman will share a £1.2bn mandate
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Features
Fixed Income & Credit: High-yield worries grow
Global high yield and loans still offer attractive returns but the worry is about the stage we are in the credit cycle